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It is evident that Bill Nye committed a significant logical error in the recent debate with Ken Ham at the Creation Museum. The problem with a logical fallacy is that it can sound right to people, even though an argument hasn’t really been made yet. This article explains the fallacy that Bill Nye committed every time he would contrast “us in the scientific community” with “Ken Ham’s creation model”. This article does a great job of addressing what the “no true Scotsman” fallacy is, how Bill Nye committed it and how he was merely insulating himself against responding to the issue. Instead of answering with a discussion about why Ken Ham’s creation model wasn’t scientific, he merely implied that real scientists don’t use it. In a very real sense, Bill Nye didn’t actually debate the issue.

…early creation scientists forged the paths of each of today’s major scientific branches of inquiry, like Isaac Newton’s physics,4 Matthew Maury’s oceanography, Louis Pasteur’s immunology,5 Michael Faraday’s electromagnetism,6 and George Carver’s agriculture.7,8 Are we to believe that Newton and Pasteur were not real scientists?

Apparently, facts like these do not matter to someone who is so fully committed to the false idea that real scientists only believe in evolution that he is more than willing to adjust the very definition of scientist to preserve his argument.

I want to address one of Bill Nye’s supposed pieces of evidence about evolution he offered in the recent debate between he and Ken Ham from Answers in Genesis. He showed a slide with a bunch of skulls on it and suggested that it was some kind of proof for evolution. In this video, Dr. David Menton, who is actually an expert in these things. Explains the real issue and does so in a very enjoyable way.

I’m sure the video is easily worth the money (I have his whole “Body of Evidence” set) but the trailer is educational in itself. Check out: 3 Ways to Make an Ape Man. By the way, Answers in Genesis has linked the video to articles explaining away other things that Bill said as well.